Manga artist rips into modern fandom
Paul •
In an interview with the Mainichi Daily News, out spoken Japanese comic artist Mimei Sakamoto has sensationally slated her fellow anime fans and slamed some of the more popular trends (moe) that are currently dominating the anime aesthetic.
Sakamoto goes so far as to claim that the “moe” style (which often depicts “cute” young girls) is a paedophiliac fetish and that the modern Japanese anime fans are not “fully-fledged” otaku because “A real otaku would never go out and about in the world because they wouldn’t believe anything good could happen to them if they did so”.
